About us
Thirty Years of Pioneering Virtual Medical-Grade Surveillance
DEPTH Health leverages the 30-year legacy of its founders who have built and scaled enterprise healthcare platforms and implemented them at over 800 hospitals worldwide. Having pioneered medical-grade dashboards and mobile device surveillance, their work remains the gold standard in high-acuity environments, including critical care, cardiac telemetry, and emergency departments.
DEPTH moves beyond mere clinical surveillance to Augmented Surveillance Intelligence: a personalized, AI-driven approach to patient traffic control and flow optimization.
We’ve built the systems.
We’ve led the change.
Now we’re redefining patient flow.
By bringing together executive governance, advanced systems architecture, and lived clinical experience, we understand what it takes to move from strategy to adoption and from intelligent design to measurable, system-wide impact.
Improving patient flow is a multidisciplinary effort that requires clinical expertise, operational discipline, and leadership commitment; but most importantly, it requires the defensible attribution of value creation.
DEPTH Health exists at that intersection.
Leadership
Alan Portela
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder
Chairman of the Board
With more than three decades in healthcare information technology, Alan has built, scaled, and exited enterprise platforms that reshaped how clinicians access and act on patient data. As CEO of AirStrip for 12 years, he led the company through sustained growth and a successful exit to NantWorks. He later served as Chief Health Transformation Officer at Masimo, guiding enterprise digital innovation across complex health systems.
Alan’s leadership is grounded in a clear belief: meaningful healthcare transformation occurs when clinical insight, operational clarity, and intelligent systems align. His work centers on building platforms that unlock capacity and strengthen enterprise decision-making at scale.
JF Lancelot
Chief Technology Officer
Co-Founder
Board Member
With more than three decades in healthcare information technology, JF has designed and deployed enterprise-grade clinical systems used across major hospitals in the United States and Europe. His work spans real-time clinical databases, distributed data acquisition networks, and scalable interoperability frameworks built to perform in complex, high-acuity environments.
With a background in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, psychology, and computer science, JF approaches healthcare technology as both a systems challenge and a human one. His focus is disciplined and precise: architecture that scales, infrastructure that performs, and systems clinicians can trust in real time.
Nicole Denham, FACHE
Chief Clinical Innovation Officer
Nicole Denham is a clinical transformation leader who drives change adoption across complex health systems. At DEPTH, she leads the clinical strategy behind the company’s AI-driven platform for enterprise patient flow optimization, ensuring technology aligns with real clinical workflows and delivers measurable operational impact.
With nearly two decades of experience spanning cardiac critical care, health system transformation, and digital strategy, she bridges bedside realities with scalable innovation and partners with executive and clinical leaders to accelerate adoption and unlock system-wide capacity. Nicole holds a BSN and MHA, is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), serves as Vice President of the Georgia Chapter of ACHE, and is certified in Strategic Planning through the Sterling Council.
Dr. Neil Martin
Fractional Chief Medical Officer
Board Member
Dr. Neil Martin is an internationally recognized neurosurgical leader and healthcare innovator. He served 15 years as Chairman of Neurosurgery at UCLA and later as Chief Quality Officer at Geisinger, bringing deep experience in academic medicine and integrated delivery systems. He co-founded the UCLA Stroke Center and founded a healthcare informatics company that secured $7.5 million in venture funding and achieved an eight-figure exit. His work has advanced smart OR and ICU-of-the-future models, intelligent clinical dashboards, and technology-enabled care delivery across health systems.
Bonnie Matthews, MSN,
RN, LSSBB
Chief Experience Officer
Bonnie brings more than 25 years of nursing and healthcare transformation experience to DEPTH Health. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, she supports workflow optimization, clinical adoption, and experience design initiatives that strengthen alignment between frontline care and organizational strategy. Her expertise spans product evaluation, service implementation, training development, and evidence-based process improvement across diverse healthcare environments.
Angela Pierce
Financial Advisor
Board Member
Angela Pierce is a seasoned financial executive with a track record of scaling high-growth technology companies through complex capital and operational transitions. She has led multiple exits exceeding $1B in enterprise value, raised more than $1B in debt and equity capital, and driven disciplined operating decisions resulting in significant revenue growth and cost optimization. Currently serving as CFO of SEON, Angela brings deep expertise in capital strategy, financial governance, and sustainable enterprise growth to DEPTH Health.
Strategic Advisors
Gregg Davis
Gregg Davis is a seasoned health system executive with 14 years of leadership experience at CommonSpirit Health (Dignity Health), where he served in multiple senior roles including SVP of International Business Strategy & Partnerships and Hospital COO. He brings deep expertise in integrated delivery networks, operational strategy, and enterprise-scale healthcare performance.
Harsh Dharwad
Harsh Dharwad serves as President & CEO of Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions, where he leads global strategy and growth for digital health platforms supporting enterprise care delivery. He brings deep experience in scaling healthcare technology businesses, driving commercial expansion, and aligning innovation with measurable clinical and operational outcomes. His leadership perspective strengthens DEPTH’s enterprise growth and digital health strategy.
Dr. Rick Lemoine
Dr. Rick Lemoine is a physician leader in Medical Informatics and Critical Care Medicine with more than 20 years at Sharp Healthcare, where he served as Chief Medical Information Officer. His experience bridges frontline critical care practice with enterprise informatics strategy, supporting clinical decision-making and health system performance improvement.
Dr. Neal Patel
Dr. Neal Patel serves as Chief Information Officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he leads enterprise informatics strategy aligned with healthcare delivery, quality, and patient safety goals. A trained Pediatric Critical Care physician with more than 20 years of clinical experience, he brings over 25 years of expertise advancing EHR and CPOE systems to improve clinical and operational performance. His work ensures health IT enhances patient care while supporting efficient, team-centered workflows across complex health systems.
Dr. Kevin Ward
Dr. Kevin Ward is Executive Director of the Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation at the University of Michigan. A leader in translational team science and biomedical innovation, he specializes in advanced human signal analysis and holds multiple patents in critical care technologies. He previously founded and led Michigan Medicine’s Fast Forward Medical Innovation program, advancing integrative collaboration across medicine, engineering, and industry to accelerate the development and execution of scalable healthcare solutions.
Dr. Shafiq Rab
Chief Digital Officer and System CIO, Dr. Rab leads the organization’s digital transformation strategy, finding innovative data-driven ways of connecting consumers and caregivers. He is a global healthcare innovator and clinician-executive, with senior roles at Tufts Health, Rush University Medical Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, the most recent in a career marked by leading complex healthcare organizations through periods of digital transformation and financial turnaround.
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About us
Thirty Years of Pioneering Virtual Medical-Grade Surveillance
DEPTH Health leverages the 30-year legacy of its founders that have built and scaled enterprise healthcare platforms and implemented them at over 800 hospitals worldwide. Having pioneered medical-grade dashboards and mobile device surveillance, their work remains the gold standard in high-acuity environments, including critical care, cardiac telemetry, and emergency departments.
DEPTH moves beyond mere clinical surveillance to Augmented Surveillance Intelligence: a personalized, AI-driven approach to patient traffic control and flow optimization.
We’ve built the systems.
We’ve led the change.
Now we’re redefining patient flow.
By bringing together executive governance, advanced systems architecture, and lived clinical experience, we understand what it takes to move from strategy to adoption and from intelligent design to measurable, system-wide impact.
Improving patient flow is a multidisciplinary effort that requires clinical expertise, operational discipline, and leadership commitment; but most importantly, it requires the defensible attribution of value creation.
DEPTH Health exists at that intersection.
Leadership
Alan Portela
Chief Executive Officer
Co-Founder
Chairman of the Board
With more than three decades in healthcare information technology, Alan has built, scaled, and exited enterprise platforms that reshaped how clinicians access and act on patient data. As CEO of AirStrip for 12 years, he led the company through sustained growth and a successful exit to NantWorks. He later served as Chief Health Transformation Officer at Masimo, guiding enterprise digital innovation across complex health systems.
Alan’s leadership is grounded in a clear belief: meaningful healthcare transformation occurs when clinical insight, operational clarity, and intelligent systems align. His work centers on building platforms that unlock capacity and strengthen enterprise decision-making at scale.
JF Lancelot
Chief Technology Officer
Co-Founder
Board Member
With more than three decades in healthcare information technology, JF has designed and deployed enterprise-grade clinical systems used across major hospitals in the United States and Europe. His work spans real-time clinical databases, distributed data acquisition networks, and scalable interoperability frameworks built to perform in complex, high-acuity environments.
With a background in Cognitive Science, Artificial Intelligence, psychology, and computer science, JF approaches healthcare technology as both a systems challenge and a human one. His focus is disciplined and precise: architecture that scales, infrastructure that performs, and systems clinicians can trust in real time.
Nicole Denham, FACHE
Chief Clinical Innovation Officer
Nicole Denham is a clinical transformation leader who drives change adoption across complex health systems. At DEPTH, she leads the clinical strategy behind the company’s AI-driven platform for enterprise patient flow optimization, ensuring technology aligns with real clinical workflows and delivers measurable operational impact.
With nearly two decades of experience spanning cardiac critical care, health system transformation, and digital strategy, she bridges bedside realities with scalable innovation and partners with executive and clinical leaders to accelerate adoption and unlock system-wide capacity. Nicole holds a BSN and MHA, is a Fellow of the American College of Healthcare Executives (FACHE), serves as Vice President of the Georgia Chapter of ACHE, and is certified in Strategic Planning through the Sterling Council.
Dr. Neil Martin
Fractional Chief Medical Officer
Board Member
Dr. Neil Martin is an internationally recognized neurosurgical leader and healthcare innovator. He served 15 years as Chairman of Neurosurgery at UCLA and later as Chief Quality Officer at Geisinger, bringing deep experience in academic medicine and integrated delivery systems. He co-founded the UCLA Stroke Center and founded a healthcare informatics company that secured $7.5 million in venture funding and achieved an eight-figure exit. His work has advanced smart OR and ICU-of-the-future models, intelligent clinical dashboards, and technology-enabled care delivery across health systems.
Bonnie Matthews, MSN,
RN, LSSBB
Chief Experience Officer
Bonnie brings more than 25 years of nursing and healthcare transformation experience to DEPTH Health. A Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, she supports workflow optimization, clinical adoption, and experience design initiatives that strengthen alignment between frontline care and organizational strategy. Her expertise spans product evaluation, service implementation, training development, and evidence-based process improvement across diverse healthcare environments.
Angela Pierce
Financial Advisor
Board Member
Angela Pierce is a seasoned financial executive with a track record of scaling high-growth technology companies through complex capital and operational transitions. She has led multiple exits exceeding $1B in enterprise value, raised more than $1B in debt and equity capital, and driven disciplined operating decisions resulting in significant revenue growth and cost optimization. Currently serving as CFO of SEON, Angela brings deep expertise in capital strategy, financial governance, and sustainable enterprise growth to DEPTH Health.
Strategic Advisors
Gregg Davis
Gregg Davis is a seasoned health system executive with 14 years of leadership experience at CommonSpirit Health (Dignity Health), where he served in multiple senior roles including SVP of International Business Strategy & Partnerships and Hospital COO. He brings deep expertise in integrated delivery networks, operational strategy, and enterprise-scale healthcare performance.
Harsh Dharwad
Harsh Dharwad serves as President & CEO of Nihon Kohden Digital Health Solutions, where he leads global strategy and growth for digital health platforms supporting enterprise care delivery. He brings deep experience in scaling healthcare technology businesses, driving commercial expansion, and aligning innovation with measurable clinical and operational outcomes. His leadership perspective strengthens DEPTH’s enterprise growth and digital health strategy.
Dr. Rick Lemoine
Dr. Rick Lemoine is a physician leader in Medical Informatics and Critical Care Medicine with more than 20 years at Sharp Healthcare, where he served as Chief Medical Information Officer. His experience bridges frontline critical care practice with enterprise informatics strategy, supporting clinical decision-making and health system performance improvement.
Dr. Neal Patel
Dr. Neal Patel serves as Chief Information Officer at Vanderbilt University Medical Center, where he leads enterprise informatics strategy aligned with healthcare delivery, quality, and patient safety goals. A trained Pediatric Critical Care physician with more than 20 years of clinical experience, he brings over 25 years of expertise advancing EHR and CPOE systems to improve clinical and operational performance. His work ensures health IT enhances patient care while supporting efficient, team-centered workflows across complex health systems.
Dr. Kevin Ward
Dr. Kevin Ward is Executive Director of the Max Harry Weil Institute for Critical Care Research and Innovation at the University of Michigan. A leader in translational team science and biomedical innovation, he specializes in advanced human signal analysis and holds multiple patents in critical care technologies. He previously founded and led Michigan Medicine’s Fast Forward Medical Innovation program, advancing integrative collaboration across medicine, engineering, and industry to accelerate the development and execution of scalable healthcare solutions.
Dr. Shafiq Rab
Chief Digital Officer and System CIO, Dr. Rab leads the organization’s digital transformation strategy, finding innovative data-driven ways of connecting consumers and caregivers. He is a global healthcare innovator and clinician-executive, with senior roles at Tufts Health, Rush University Medical Center, Hackensack University Medical Center, the most recent in a career marked by leading complex healthcare organizations through periods of digital transformation and financial turnaround.